Vence and Saint Paul de Vance

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Again, we unplugged our groovy electric wheels and today we went north, away from the coast and more into what you would consider Provence.  The towns of Vence and Saint Paul de Vence are both medieval towns, but different from Eze.  Vence has wider streets, more shops, and it looks more like a town where people actually carry on their lives....but it still has that old, stone, narrow-street feeling to it.  At lunch time we sat in the sun and had a lovely lunch.

Here are some pictures of Vence.

                                     The date over this archway is 1632.....

                                       As you can see by the laundry...people really live here............

                                   I love this window with the shutters shaped to fit.......

This painting of St. Paul de Vence, the next place we will go, was at a sweet little gallery in Vence.  I really liked this painting.

As we were leaving Vence, we came across a huge old tree and beside it a plaque with a picture of a painting of the same tree by Soutine.....remember Soutine, from several posts ago....the artist who did the very weird paintings in the Pinacotheque Museum.......friend of Modigliani.....?      

    There were also these trees.  They are actually pruned this way....these just have not leafed out yet.

After leaving Vence, we went to St. Paul de Vence, which is more of a hill town with narrower, steeper streets than Vence.  Not like, Eze, but a really lovely place with fabulous Provencal views.

This is what the surface of all the streets were like.